'Need for Speed' franchise is shifting gears:
LOS ANGELES Electronic Arts is steering the popular "Need for Speed" franchise in a new direction.
The video game publisher announced plans Friday t...
'Need for Speed' franchise is shifting gears:
LOS ANGELES Electronic Arts is steering the popular "Need for Speed" franchise in a new direction.
The video game publisher announced plans Friday to spin off the 15-year-old racing series into three driving games on different platforms. The new games will speed into three separate genres — simulation, action and arcade racing.
"It's all about crafting different games for different audiences," said Keith Munro, EA marketing vice president. "The 'Need for Speed' brand is quite powerful. It has great recognition, even outside of gaming. When we talked to consumers about what the brand meant to them, we realized that it could be stretched to new limits on different platforms."
The new games, expected to be released later this year, are "Need for Speed Shift," a first-person racing simulation for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; "Need for Speed World Online," a multiplayer action-driving game for the PC; and "Need for Speed Nitro," an arcade-style racing game developed by EA Montreal for the Nintendo Wii and DS.
"In the past, our 'Need for Speed' games have done very well on all platforms," Munro said. "We just think we can do better with this new plan. We actually have the opportunity to devote an entirely new studio and development team to the creation of a from-the-ground-up Nintendo-only 'Need for Speed' game. We didn't have those resources available before."
Munro said EA Black Box, the Canadian developer that created every previous "Need for Speed" game, has been collaborating with developer Slightly Mad Studios on "Need for Speed Shift" and EA Singapore on "Need for Speed World Online." He also said Black Box is continuing to work on a new action driving game, despite recent companywide layoffs.
"They will still be very much involved in the development of 'Need for Speed' products," Munro said. "Over the years, we've asked the Black Box team to deliver a new 'Need for Speed' game every year. We've gone to a couple of new studios to deliver next fall's games to inject freshness into the category and give the Black Box team time to retrench."
The new games have been in development for two years. The original "Need for Speed" was released in 1994 for the 3DO, PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn systems. The most recent game, "Need for Speed Undercover," was released last November for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Wii and PC.
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and thats hardly believable. prove to me you are truly against violence by letting go of your sensless hatred. when i hate someone i hate them for something they did but i'd never kill them unless it meant protecting innocent people.you act like your smart. shame it's a lie.
oh come on! i honestly apologised... i took my pride and threw it to the waste basket! i said i was sorry! but i also explained to you, that i am NOT a naive and stupid kid. that i HAVE seen bad stuff. and i cannot prove it. so what the fuck do you expect from me? i mean seriously man. why would i be lying?
what sensless hatred? towards whom? the rednecks? the nazis? the islamists? is it "sensless"? do you think i didn't cry when i saw the footage that september 11 of 2001? even though i was 7?
i didn't even know the twin towers existed! i still couldn't tell a country from another one! like any 7 year old. but to see that act of violence was enough to get me to cry.... and i don't cry that much.
what do you think i'm tryna do here... brag? why? it's the internet. what's the point?
i do this cuz i genuinly care about the world i live in, i try to bring people to their senses. and war is not the way to go. do you think i lie abot my IQ? im "ADHD2 and "gifted"... and i got bullied.
don't you hate how youtube is slow i posted that comment before i got your apology. sorry for any offense. and please don't be mad at me just because i'm going to join the navy i love flight and i amde a promise to my uncle that i'd atleast become a luitenant. i dread the day of my first dogfight but if i have no choice as to end someones life let it be so that innocent people can live out of fear of terrorists. and i'm sorry for assuming you where lying.
and last, i apologise. because i assumed, wrongly, not only by doing so, it is against my policy... but also because i assumed wrong. im sorry for calling you a redneck, i thought you were one of those fundamentalist christian rednecks that i hate, who love war and to hate. although im not latino of blood, i am of birth, and i too have suffered the pain that it is to be pointed at. in england kids wouldn't be my friends, cuz Colombians are supposedly all "druggies". i was 5 years old...
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what sensless hatred? towards whom? the rednecks? the nazis? the islamists? is it "sensless"? do you think i didn't cry when i saw the footage that september 11 of 2001? even though i was 7?
what do you think i'm tryna do here... brag? why? it's the internet. what's the point?
i do this cuz i genuinly care about the world i live in, i try to bring people to their senses. and war is not the way to go. do you think i lie abot my IQ? im "ADHD2 and "gifted"... and i got bullied.